Early Times Report
samba, Oct 3: The private labs of district Samba are allegedly looting the innocent people by providing fake medical reports and showing them positive for dengue.
Sources said that people of Samba have been living under constant threat of dengue as the private labs operators in the district misguiding them, making extra bugs by sending them outside state for treatment.
Director Health Services, Jammu, Dr B S Pathania said that the tests of dengue were conducted in some private labs, without department's help.
"We are concerned over misleading of people by private labs, who claim that they conduct tests for the dengue fever at their labs," Dr Pathania said. He further said department has also got reports from Samba that some laboratories, for their own interest, were sending patients to Ludhiana by manipulating the medical reports of patients. "We have taken up the issue with the Deputy Commissioner, Samba, and our team is verifying the facts about this kind of malpractice," he added. "Some of the private medical laboratories at Samba, on the basis of the Rapid Test, send patients to Ludhiana, saying that Jammu doctors cannot treat the disease properly," a source said, adding that for these tests, laboratories in Samba have been charging Rs 700 from a patient. |
